Talk:WETA (FM)

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I am horrified at the Format Switch to all classical.--Filll 18:43, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

I personally think it is great! Now if we could get the choral, opera, and "art song" music of Viva La Voce and some awesome jazz and blues WETA would have something. I never understood why there were two NPR stations playing the exact same programming in DC....NPR fans can listen to WAMU, classical fans can listen to WETA. It is win-win for everyone. SVRTVDude 19:49, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Totally agree with above. I am so happy classical music is still alive! There are so many other sources of news.

Does WBJC reach you guys? WBJC is plenty classical. Does WAMU carry Wait Wait? -Taco325i 15:41, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Disambiguation issue

There's a slight problem: WETA now uses the WGMS call sign for its repeater station. I got into this in the Washington FM template talk page:

The old one has clearly died, but the call letters live on — bequeathed to WETA in WGMS's last will and testament. That could get confusing for people who don't know the D.C. radio market, and presumably, that's who we write these articles for. Does it make sense to have WGMS in the template twice — once as a defunct station, and in another place with a link to WETA — or do we need to disambiguate the titles somehow? For what it's worth, I see more sense in turning WGMS (FM) into a disambiguation page, with one link to the current content at, maybe, WGMS (classical music station), and a separate line explaining that the call sign now belongs to a repeater station for WETA. Or you could redirect WGMS (FM) to WETA, put a line at the top saying:

WGMS (FM) redirects here. For the former commercial radio station in Washington, D.C., with a similar format, see WGMS (classical music station).

... and point the 'past stations' link in the Washington FM template to the latter page.

We probably need to come up with a better disambiguation — they're both classical music stations, after all — but there has to be some way to handle this. Thoughts? —GGreeneVa 01:42, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Or maybe "WGMS (defunct commercial station)" can do the trick. I dunno -- help me out here, y'all. —GGreeneVa 01:47, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Any thoughts on how to address this issue? For the sake of keeping the discussion in one place, let me suggest commenting at the Washington FM template talk page; considering that this affects two radio station articles and that template, it seemed like the best place to have the conversation. —GGreeneVa 01:58, 26 January 2007 (UTC)